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U.N. Peacekeeping: GAO's Access to Records on Executive Branch Decision-making

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This correspondence provides information on GAO's efforts to obtain access to executive branch records needed to complete its study of United Nations (U.N.) peacekeeping operations. GAO's experience in trying to obtain these records has impaired its ability to conduct meaningful oversight work for Congress that is timely, independent, objective, fact-based, accurate, and complete. Specifically (1) unreasonable … more
Date: March 6, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Internal Controls: C-17 Payment Procedures Can Be Improved

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 allows the use of performance-based payment (PBP) as an alternative to other forms of contract financing. According to the Department of Defense (DOD), the paying office processed about one million invoices for 363,000 major contracts. In fiscal year 1999, only 195 of these contracts contained performance-based provisions. These contracts are so few in number bec… more
Date: May 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Capitol Preservation Commission Attestation Engagement

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The United States Capitol Preservation Commission receives commemorative coin surcharge funds authorized by the United States Capitol Visitor Center Commemorative Coin Act of 1999. Under the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997 and the U.S. Mint's Compliance Procedures for Surcharge Eligibility, the commission must meet certain requirements before receiving available coin surcharge funds. The commiss… more
Date: December 12, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Federally Chartered Corporation: Review of the Financial Statement Audit Report for the Women's Army Corps Veterans' Association for Fiscal Year 2000

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed the audit report covering the financial statements of the Women's Army Corps Veterans' Association, for fiscal year 2000. GAO found no reportable evidence of noncompliance. The audit report included the auditors' opinions that the financial statements of the corporation were presented fairly in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles."
Date: August 21, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Endangered Species Act: Fee-Based Mitigation Arrangements

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Endangered Species Act seeks to protect affected species and their habitats from the activities of federal agencies and individual landowners. If a landowner plans to engage in an activity that may harm endangered species or their habitats, the landowner may prepare a Habitat Conservation Plan that may include paying a fee to a third party to ensure that the affected species is protected. GAO reviewed (1) t… more
Date: February 15, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Environmental Protection: Improved Inspections and Enforcement Would Better Ensure the Safety of Underground Storage Tanks

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The states and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cannot ensure that all active underground storage tanks have the required leak-, spill-, and overfill-protection equipment installed, nor can they guarantee that the installed equipment is being properly operated and maintained. Although the states and EPA regions focus most of their limited resources on monitoring active tanks, empty or inactive tanks c… more
Date: May 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Information Sharing: Practices That Can Benefit Critical Infrastructure Protection

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Information sharing and coordination are key elements in any defense against cyber attacks. The organizations GAO reviewed identified factors they considered critical to their success in building successful information-sharing relationships with and among their members. All of the organizations identified trust as essential to successful relationships. They said that trust could only be built over time and thr… more
Date: October 15, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Veterans Benefits: Training for Claims Processors Needs Evaluation

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) developed a computer-assisted training program, known as the Training and Performance Support System (TPSS), to help its employees become more accurate in processing disability compensation and pension claims. The program seeks to provide uniform and consistent training to employees in 57 regional offices. Although VBA's long-term goal is to attain a 96 percent accura… more
Date: May 31, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Federal Buildings: Funding Repairs and Alterations Has Been a Challenge--Expanded Financing Tools Needed

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The General Services Administration (GSA), the federal government's real property manager, it is responsible for identifying, funding, and completing needed repairs and alterations at federal buildings. This report examines (1) GSA's process for assessing and selecting prospectus-level major repair and alteration design projects for funding, (2) the obstacles that impede GSA from satisfying its repair and alte… more
Date: April 12, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Personnel Appeals Board: Annual Report, 1999-2000

Description: Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO published a report describing the activities of the Personnel Appeals Board, its Office of General Counsel, and its Office of Equal Employment Opportunity Oversight during the last two fiscal years."
Date: February 15, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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IRS Telephone Assistance: Quality of Service Mixed in the 2000 Filing Season and Below IRS' Long-Term Goal

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) must significantly improve telephone assistance if it is to meet its long-term goal of providing world-class customer service to the tens of millions of taxpayers who call. Although IRS has tried to analyze its performance and identify ways to improve, these efforts have been incomplete. IRS' analyses did not cover all of the key management decisions and other key factors tha… more
Date: April 6, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Electronic Commerce: Small Business Participation in Selected On-line Procurement Programs

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The federal government has been pursuing electronic initiatives to strengthen its buying processes, reduce costs, and create a competitive "virtual" marketplace. Small businesses, however, may have difficulty participating in federal on-line procurement programs. Furthermore, the government's business outreach and education programs related to electronic commerce may not be adequately coordinated. For the thre… more
Date: October 29, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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IRS Telephone Assistance: Opportunities to Improve Human Capital Management

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Each year, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) determines the staffing level for its toll-free telephone customer service operations. GAO found that IRS lacks a long-term telephone customer service goal that reflects the needs of taxpayers and the costs and benefits of meeting that goal. Rather, IRS annually determines the level of funding it will seek for its customer service workforce, using its judgment of h… more
Date: January 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Practice Expense Payments to Oncologists Indicate Need For Overall Refinements

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Medicare's physician fee schedule establishes payments for more than 7,000 different services, such as office visits, surgical procedures, and treatments. Before 1992, fees were based on charges physicians billed for these services. Since then, the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), which runs Medicare, has been phasing in a new fee schedule on the basis of the amount of resources used to provide tha… more
Date: October 31, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Skilled Nursing Facilities: Services Excluded From Medicare's Daily Rate Need to be Reevaluated

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Congress and the Health Care Financing Administration recognized that certain services needed to be excluded from the skilled nursing facility (SNF) prospective payment system (PPS) rate to help ensure beneficiary access to appropriate care and to financially protect the SNFs that take care of high-cost patients. The criteria used to identify services--high cost, infrequently provided during a SNF stay and lik… more
Date: August 22, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Farm Service Agency: Updated Status of the Multibillion-Dollar Farm Loan Portfolio

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Farm Service Agency (FSA) within the Department of Agriculture provides financial assistance to farmers and ranchers who are unable to obtain commercial credit at reasonable rates and terms. FSA provides direct government-funded loans and repayment guarantees on farm loans made by commercial lenders. During the 1990s, GAO issued a series of reports highlighting the substantial financial risk associated wit… more
Date: January 10, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Cooperative Threat Reduction: DOD Has Adequate Oversight of Assistance, but Procedural Limitations Remain

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Since 1992, Congress has authorized more than $3 billion for the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program to help Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Moldova, and Georgia secure and eliminate weapons of mass destruction. Concerned about proper oversight of equipment and services provided by the program, Congress required the Department of Defense (DOD) to report annually on whether the assistan… more
Date: June 19, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Electronic Warfare: The Army Can Reduce Its Risks in Developing New Radar Countermeasures System

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Army is acquiring a new, state-of-the-art radar countermeasures system--called the Suite of Integrated Radio Frequency Countermeasures to help helicopters and other aircraft identify, track, and defeat radar-guided missiles in complex electronic environments where many radar systems could be operating simultaneously. The Army has identified software and hardware modification needed for its new radar counte… more
Date: April 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Joint Strike Fighter Acquisition: Mature Critical Technologies Needed to Reduce Risks

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Joint Strike Fighter Program (JSFP), the military's most expensive aircraft program, is intended to produce affordable, next-generation aircraft to replace aging aircraft in military inventories. Although JSFP has made good progress in some technology areas, the program may not meet its affordability objective because critical technologies are not projected to be matured to levels GAO believes would indica… more
Date: October 19, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Medigap Insurance: Plans Are Widely Available but Have Limited Benefits and May Have High Costs

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "To protect themselves against large out-of-pocket expenses and help fill gaps in Medicare coverage, most beneficiaries buy supplemental insurance, known as Medigap; contribute to employer-sponsored health benefits to supplement Medicare coverage; or enroll in private Medicare+Choice plans rather than traditional fee-for-service Medicare. Because Medicare+Choice plans are not available everywhere and many empl… more
Date: July 31, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Aviation Rulemaking: Further Reform Is Needed to Address Long-standing Problems

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issues regulations to strengthen aviation safety and security and to promote the efficient use of airspace. FAA's rulemaking is a complicated process intended to ensure that all aspects of any regulatory change are fully analyzed before any change goes into effect. During the last 40 years, many reports have documented problems in FAA's rulemaking efforts that have de… more
Date: July 9, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Best Practices: Better Matching of Needs and Resources Will Lead to Better Weapon System Outcomes

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report examines how best practices offer improvements to the way the Department of Defense defines and matches weapon system requirements to available resources such as cost, schedule, and mature technologies. GAO identified three factors that were key to matching needs and resources before product development began. First, developers employed the technique of systems engineering to identify gaps between… more
Date: March 8, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Weapons of Mass Destruction: State Department Oversight of Science Centers Program

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Since 1994, the United States has appropriated $227 million to support two multilateral science centers in Russia and Ukraine. The science centers pay scientists who once developed nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and missile systems for the Soviet Union to conduct peaceful research. By employing scientists at the science centers, the United States seeks to reduce the risks that these scientists could… more
Date: May 10, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Reproductive Health: Federal Funds That Supported Four Nonprofit Organizations

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report identifies federal funding for fiscal years 1999 and 2000 that supported reproductive health activities of the following four nonprofit organizations: the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Population Council, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, and The Alan Guttmacher Institute. GAO found that these organizations used $184 million in federal funds for fiscal year 1999 and $1… more
Date: November 13, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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